Photography Talk

In Art:

I have created other skulls to go with my flame coloured one, the Metal Skull is totally metal, and the Optical Skullis not what it seems. I’ve already spoken aboutDeath in Red in the last blog, but he was the catalyst for the others, so it seems fitting that he’s in this one, next to his skull brothers.
I had a lot of fun playing around with the settings in photoshop for these guys, I played around with textures, lighting and gradients to get just the right feel for each skull. I’m really pleased with how they’ve turned out.

In Photography:

I also added these two to society6. The countryside shotis of an old, derelict settlement on English moorland, complete with the obligatory sheep of course. It’s hard to imagine anyone live there to be honest, the whole area is very spongey, and boggy in places.

The bee shot I took on a walk by the river last year, it was just begging to have its photo taken, so I obliged. When I say begging, it landed and stayed there long enough for me to catch this rather lovely shot.

In Writing:

A couple of weeks ago I submitted a short story to a be included in a halloween compilation, I heard back a few days ago, they love the story, which gladdened my bones. The proceeds of the book will go to 22 Kill, which is a charity that is trying to eradicate veteran suicide through treatment and preventative measures.
I do have a few tweaks to make, but once the book is out it’ll be my first published piece, and for a worthy cause too. I’ll post more about this, and give it it’s own blog nearer the publish date, but for now, I know too little to tell you much.

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I’ve missed a few days of blogging, again, so I’ve made a decision to blog once a week instead of twice, in the hopes that I’ll be better at sticking to it. Although I might do a cheeky bonus blog if I have something to talk about.

That being said, I have been unwell, so my brain’s not really been working and all you’d have gotten was a string of gibberish anyways.

I have achieved some things this past week and a bit though.

On Art:

Here’s where I have actually done something. I created a Halloween/ Horror piece that I love. It was taken from a photograph of a resin skull, called Uncle Arthur, and reworked into something spooktakular.

The piece on the right is a photograph, the piece on the left has been reworked into a piece of art, and made much bigger.

This meant that when it came to towels I could have two types of design.

When you click Links to the art work, the other available products are shown below. I’d love to go trick or Treating with that tote I have to admit!

On writing:

I came across a chapter that needed a complete rehashing, what I tend to to in those situations is create a whole new word doc just for that chapter. That way if I mess it up, or lose something I later need, it’s still there.

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So I’ve been busy this week I decided to create a shop on zazzle, there’s so much stuff on there, but I’ve been good, I’ve not made all the things.

Below is a selection, I’m also making bandannas and baby bibs. There’s still a lit to do, and I want to get everything sorted on zazzle before I created anything new, but I do have lots of ideas for art projects.

I wanted to see what the differences were between soc6 and zazzle, there’s quite a big difference, but that’s a whole other blog post.

Also my dreamer art work was selected on society6 to be displayed on their shop, so that was welcome news this morning.

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Some time ago I lived in a house that backed onto some woodland, peacock’s used to strut through it leaving horrific steaming piles of bird poop. If you’ve never seen peacock poop consider yourself lucky, it’s nasty.

Still, I can hardly complain when they were so compliant and willing to be photographed, just look at this show off, posing for the camera.

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I got loads of wonderful shots of this bad boy sunset, but this one makes me relax on sight. Like a visual cup of hot chocolate/ horlix/ warm milk, whatever your choice of relaxing beverage.

The sun set across open moorland, spanning vast distances and lighting up the distant rolling hills, turning them from brilliant green to burnt orange in a moment before all was darkness and the sounds of the night crept in, bringing new smells and cooler air.

Sunset is truly a moment in time between night and day, here for the blink of an eye, and each one different and new and never to be seen again (unless you have a camera of course).

What’s your preference? Sunrise, Sunset, or do you like to be firmly in the night or day?